Plutarch

Broschiertes Buch

The Rise of Rome

Beschreibung

As well as providing an illuminating picture of the first century AD, the author depicts complex and nuanced heroes who display the essential virtues of Greek civilization - courage, patriotism, justice, intelligence and reason - that contributed to the rise of Rome.

Autor

Plutarch (c. 45–120 A.D.), the Greek philosopher, lived at the height of the Roman Empire and is author of one of the largest and most important collections of writings to have survived from Classical antiquity. Ian Scott-Kilvert (1917–1989) was the director of English literature at the British Council and the translator for Penguin Classics of Plutarch’s Rise and Fall of Athens and Makers of Rome. Christopher Pelling is a professor of Greek at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Jeffrey Tatum is a professor of classics at Victoria University of Wellington.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics .
• Verlag: Penguin UK
• revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 834
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9780140449754
• ISBN-10: 0140449752
• Artikelnr.: 37031387